Svá
Old Icelandic Dictionary - sváMeaning of Old Icelandic word "svá" in English.
As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):
svá Old Icelandic word can mean:
- svá
- adv.
- svá
- 1) so, thus;
- svá
- ertu Íslenzkr maðr? — hann sagði, at ~ var, he said it was so;
- svá
- ~ er sagt, at, it is told that;
- svá
- 2) joined with another particle, ~ … ok, both … and;
- svá
- ~ starf ok torveldi, both toil and trouble;
- svá
- ~ ráns-maðrinn ok okrkarlinn, the robber as well as the usurer;
- svá
- ok ~, and also, as also;
- svá
- sumarit ok ~ um vetrinn, the summer, as also the winter;
- svá
- fögr augu ok ~ snarlig, fair eyes and also sharp;
- svá
- 3) so, denoting degree (œrit mun hann stórvirkr, en eigi veit ek, hvárt hann er ~ góðvirkr);
- svá
- Gunnarr spyrr, hví Njáli þœtti þetta ~ úráðligt, why he thought this so unwise;
- svá
- ekki meirr en ~, not more than so, so and no more;
- svá
- 4) followed by an adjective and ‘at’, ~ ríkr, góðr, mikill, margir, fáir … at, so mighty, good, great, many, few … that;
- svá
- ~ at, so that;
- svá
- kaldr (sjúkr) ~, at, so cold (sick) that;
- svá
- contracted ‘~t’, ~t ek muna, that (so far as) I remember;
- svá
- with a gen., Hallfreðr er ~ manna, at ek skil sízt, H. is such a man as I never can make out;
- svá
- hón er ~ kvenna (= hón er ~ af konum), at mér er mest um at eiga, she is just such a woman as I most want;
- svá
- 5) ~ … sem, as … as;
- svá
- hárit var ~ fagrt sem silki, as fair (soft) as silk;
- svá
- ~ vel sem þér ferr, well as thou behavest;
- svá
- 6) so, then (gengu þeir norðr yfir hálsinn ok ~ fram á Rastarkálf);
- svá
- 7) joined to an a. or adv., about, pretty much;
- svá
- slíkar ~ fortölur, somewhat such persuasion;
- svá
- þat mun þó ~ nær fara, yet it will be just on the verge of that;
- svá
- nakkvat ~, somewhat so;
- svá
- fegnir nakkvat (nökkut) ~, rather glad;
- svá
- mjök ~, almost, very nearly, all but (mjök ~ kominn at bana).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚢᛅ
Abbreviations used:
- adv.
- adverb.
- gen.
- genitive.
- n.
- neuter.
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